Sailor Moon 8’s here, box is on the way!

I’m finally back in the office after three days of being shut up in my apartment. We experienced no damage or power outages, but our thoughts are with all the people here in New York and across the East Coast who were less lucky. The transit system here is still in chaos (the only reason I’m here is that my subway line is one of the only ones back up and running), so if we’re a little slow getting back to anyone this week, that’s why!

The box sets are also getting ready to go! As you may have heard, they include Vol. 1-6 as well as an exclusive set of stickers. (You can preorder one here.) We sent Stephen Pakula, our production manager, to the printer to check on them a while back, and he took loads of photos of the boxes and books. Those of you who follow us on Twitter may have seen these already, but everyone else — click “Continue reading” below for a peek behind the scenes!

Unfortunately the original print run is on a different paper stock, which means that if you bought the first print run your books actually won’t fit in this box. So we can’t offer it for sale separately. Sorry!

We were out of inventory on several of the volumes, so we had to do new print runs of them. Those were on different paper, so we had to make the box smaller to accommodate them. As a result, if you tried to put your first-print individual volumes into the empty box, they would be too big and the box would bulge or split. I hope that answers your question.

Hello! I just want to say, you’ve all done a great job with these new translations and I’m super happy that I bought them, but I was wondering, since the volumes you’re releasing are the early 2000 versions of the Sailor Moon books is there any interest on your end to acquiring the rights to publish the new 2013 versions currently releasing in Japan? I understand you may not have any interest, I’m just curious because you guys have done such a good job with these versions.